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yw3410 on April 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation

But what you call promptness is predictability from the PoV of the programmer, no?

I don't think I've mentioned performance anywhere; thanks for the paper I'll take a look.

pron on April 25, 2023 [–]

> But what you call promptness is predictability from the PoV of the programmer, no?

I don't think so. You don't know when memory will be freed or how long that would take only that it will be freed as soon as possible. The end result is lower footprint but that's about it.

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